Laughter Quotes

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

I just love listening to the laughter.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.